Beverage extract.



UNITED %TATE% FFEQ.

WILLIE: H. POST, OF BATTLE CREEK, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO POSTUM CEREAZ 00., LIMITED, OF BATTLE CREEK, MICHIGAN, A PARTNERSHIR' BEVERAGE nxra'ac'r.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I', WVILms H. Posr, of Battle Creek, Michigan, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Beverage Extracts, which invention is fully set forth in the following specificatimi.

This invention relates to beverage extracts and has for its object the production of a readily soluble extract from roasted figs and the preparation therefrom of a beverage which is palatable and possesses many of the desirable properties of this fruit.

The fleshy. receptacle of Ficus C'arca has long been known as an article of diet in its dried condition and has also been recognized in medicine for its nutritious, laxative and deniulcent properties. Figs have also been roasted and mixed with coffee, the mixture being known as fig-coffee. In the preparation of a table beverage from roasted figs with or without admixture of coffee, skill I not possessed by the average coo-k is required in its preparation in order to obtain quickly and in acceptable form a beverage having to the fullest extent the flavor and desirable properties characteristic of the roasted product.

I have discovered that a beverage extract may be prepared from roasted figs which overcomes the above objections and from which a beverage maybe readily prepared by persons unskilled in the culinary art and which retains the desirable characteristics peculiar to that brewed from the roasted product.

By way of illustrating one way in which the benefits of my invention may be secured, dried figs are subjected to a regulated heat in. suitable drying apparatus whereby the sugar content sometimes amounting to nearly is caramelized. While the temperature may vary between comparatively wide limits, the best results are secured when slight carbonizing takes place. This insures complete caramelizing and develops desirable flavors in the product while facilitating the subsequent operation of extraction with water, either hot or cold, to remove soluble constituents in the form of a clear solution. From the roasted product a Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 17, 1913.

Application filed September 19, 1812. Serial No. 721,2?9.

solid soluble extract is prepared by treating the product preferably in a comminuted form with Water in which it may be steeped,

boiled or soaked, but I prefer to make the extraction by percolation in water at about 50 to (1., thereby usually obtaining a clear solution. If a clear solution is not obtained filtration is resorted to for this purpose. The clear aqueous solution is next concentrated by evaporation to a solid, This operation is preferably conducted in a vacuum pan or on a rotary drum in cacao, the'usual precaution wellknown to those skilled in this art being taken to prevent injurious heating of the product. The dried extract is then comminuted or reduced to grains, powder, flakes or other subdivided form and is ready for packing.

The'resulting product is a beverage extract in comminuted form and of extreme solubility in water. A teaspoonful of the extract may be dissolved in a cup of'hot water in one minute or less and produces a sufficient to caramelize the sugar content.

3. A: solid soluble extract for preparing beverages, matter in comminutedform derived from roasted figs.

4. A solid soluble extract for preparing beverages consisting of extractive matter in soluble form of partially carbonized figs.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscrib-' ing witnesses.

WILLIS H. POST.

Witnesses:

VERN D. SUTTON, G. M. LA PIERRE.

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